Metro to offer fare card with next president’s picture

Metro plans to offer commemorative
fare cards with the president's picture, just as
it did four years ago, but this time the cards
will be cheaper and offer more choices.

Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009, set a record for ridership - the highest in the transit system's history - with a total of 1,120,000 rail trips, 423,000 bus trips and 1,721 MetroAccess trips. It sold 93,380 Commemorative Obama SmarTrip cards, up to that date. Here's what the crowds at the Federal Center Metro stop looked like on Inauguration Day four years ago. (WTOP File)